Etymology

tapis

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Today it means: A tapestry. Full definition →

Old French tapiz ← Ancient Greek τάπης
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The story

  1. Ancient Greek · derived fromτάπης
  2. Old French · derived fromtapiz
  3. English todaytapis

From French, from Old French tapiz, from Vulgar Latin *tapēs, from Ancient Greek τάπης (tápēs), from an Iranian source.

Words from the same roots

Ancient Greekτάπης all →

tapestrytapetum

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.